Tilt-table testing: down but not out

Tilt-table testing: down but not out

Clin. Pract. (2014) 11(3), 265–268 ISSN 2044-9038 part of Syncope is very common, with the overall incidence for first syncope being 6.2 per 1000 patient years, increasing to 20 in females aged over 80 years [1]. Vasovagal syncope (VVS) is by far the most common cause, explaining over 20% of cases, with an underlying cardiac cause in 10% of cases and up to 37% of cases remaining unexplained [1]...

Down but not out

By his mid-forties, Darwin had established his scientific reputation, was married with a young family and had built on the solid connections that came with his and his wife's well-known middle class families. 'He was one of the kindest and truest men that it was ever my good fortune to know,' said his influential scientific colleague, Thomas Huxley. With no need to seek employment, Darwin took ...

"Down but not out".

Out but not down

his research partner Nico Forraz. He plans to open the world's biggest institute devoted to cord blood and adult stem cells. McGuckin has been a leader of researchers working in the UK on stem cells derived from babies' umbilical cord blood. The method is less controversial than embryo-derived stem cells as no embryo is destroyed in the process. He told the Times Higher Education that France ha...

Leprosy: Down But Not Out

Where is the world’s only leprosy museum? Calcutta? Louisiana? No. It’s in Bergen, Norway. I visited the Leprosy Museum in Bergen last year, when visiting my friend, Jan Eggum, a well-known Norwegian singer and composer. The museum houses the original laboratories and surgeries where Dr. Armauer Hansen and his colleagues dld the frst systematic research on leprosy. The “leprosarium” where Hanse...